The main features of drama performance different from film performance are as follows.

The drama is performed on the stage and belongs to live broadcast. The film belongs to post-production editing. Every shot can be shot and polished repeatedly, and can be shot in various ways. Post-editing can continuously improve the overall grasp of the story.

Drama is the art of stage, which abstracts the vast real life into a small stage. Scenery, lighting, props and other stage elements are not to replicate real life on the stage, but to create an abstract and concentrated life scene. This kind of life scene has the characteristics of exaggeration and rendering, which makes the life scene on the stage different from real life.

But when this exaggerated life scene is set in the theater and the audience is separated by the "fourth wall", the life scene on the stage has its own logic, and no audience will criticize the "authenticity" of the play because of the exaggeration of the stage scenery. This is the restriction of life scenes on actors.

Drama actors can't copy real life in this life scene, but must show an abstract and concentrated life. Film and television performance is the art of lens, and the final product is a rendered film and television work after photography and editing. Film and television creators will enlarge the key information in the play through scene switching and lens movement, so that the audience can see the necessary information at any time.

The origin of the name

Drama with dialogue and action as the main means of expression. It first appeared on the eve of the Revolution of 1911, when it was called "new drama" or "civilized drama". The new drama gradually declined after the Revolution of 1911. After the May 4th Movement, European drama was introduced into China, and modern drama in China rose, which was called "American drama" and "white drama" at that time. It reflects social life through the characters' personalities.

Dialogue in drama is refined spoken language, which must be personalized, natural, refined, vivid, beautiful, expressive, easy to understand and acceptable to the masses. Qu Yuan by Guo Moruo, Teahouse by Lao She, Thunderstorm by Cao Yu and Shan Xinpu by Su Shuyang are all famous plays in China.

Drama was introduced into China from abroad in the early 20th century. From 65438 to 0907, Zeng Xiaogu, who studied in Tokyo, Japan from China, was adapted from an American novel, The Record of the Black Slave, which was the first script of China's early plays. Modern famous dramatists include Guo Moruo, Cao Yu, Hong Shen, Tian Han and Lao She.